US4722311A - Capacitor ignition apparatus - Google Patents

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US4722311A
US4722311A US07/011,161 US1116187A US4722311A US 4722311 A US4722311 A US 4722311A US 1116187 A US1116187 A US 1116187A US 4722311 A US4722311 A US 4722311A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02P—IGNITION, OTHER THAN COMPRESSION IGNITION, FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES; TESTING OF IGNITION TIMING IN COMPRESSION-IGNITION ENGINES
    • F02P5/00—Advancing or retarding ignition; Control therefor
    • F02P5/04—Advancing or retarding ignition; Control therefor automatically, as a function of the working conditions of the engine or vehicle or of the atmospheric conditions
    • F02P5/145—Advancing or retarding ignition; Control therefor automatically, as a function of the working conditions of the engine or vehicle or of the atmospheric conditions using electrical means
    • F02P5/15—Digital data processing
    • F02P5/1502—Digital data processing using one central computing unit
    • F02P5/1504—Digital data processing using one central computing unit with particular means during a transient phase, e.g. acceleration, deceleration, gear change
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02P—IGNITION, OTHER THAN COMPRESSION IGNITION, FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES; TESTING OF IGNITION TIMING IN COMPRESSION-IGNITION ENGINES
    • F02P1/00—Installations having electric ignition energy generated by magneto- or dynamo- electric generators without subsequent storage
    • F02P1/08—Layout of circuits
    • F02P1/086—Layout of circuits for generating sparks by discharging a capacitor into a coil circuit
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02P—IGNITION, OTHER THAN COMPRESSION IGNITION, FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES; TESTING OF IGNITION TIMING IN COMPRESSION-IGNITION ENGINES
    • F02P11/00—Safety means for electric spark ignition, not otherwise provided for
    • F02P11/02—Preventing damage to engines or engine-driven gearing
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02P—IGNITION, OTHER THAN COMPRESSION IGNITION, FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES; TESTING OF IGNITION TIMING IN COMPRESSION-IGNITION ENGINES
    • F02P5/00—Advancing or retarding ignition; Control therefor
    • F02P5/04—Advancing or retarding ignition; Control therefor automatically, as a function of the working conditions of the engine or vehicle or of the atmospheric conditions
    • F02P5/145—Advancing or retarding ignition; Control therefor automatically, as a function of the working conditions of the engine or vehicle or of the atmospheric conditions using electrical means
    • F02P5/15—Digital data processing
    • F02P5/1502—Digital data processing using one central computing unit
    • F02P5/1506—Digital data processing using one central computing unit with particular means during starting
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
    • Y02T10/00—Road transport of goods or passengers
    • Y02T10/10—Internal combustion engine [ICE] based vehicles
    • Y02T10/40—Engine management systems

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  • This invention relates to a capacitor ignition apparatus for internal-combustion engines having a magneto generator and a pulse generator for the switching through of an electronic switch which discharges the capacitor via the primary winding of an ignition coil.
  • the switching-through of the electronic switch occurs either by an external ignition pulse generator or also by an internal ignition pulse generator which, for example, starting from the charging state of the capacitor, generates via a voltage attenuator the required ignition signal.
  • an external ignition pulse generator has the advantage that a greater variability with regard to the selection and position of the instant of ignition is made possible.
  • the variability is more or less limited to the prior setting, i.e., although the designer can place the instant of ignition at any optimal desired instant, it is then no longer possible to vary the instant of ignition during operation, especially as automatically as possible, according to the particular load requirements.
  • an object of the present invention is to provide a capacitor ignition apparatus of the initially mentioned kind wherein the instant of ignition can be randomly programmed.
  • the invention provides that the ignition pulse generator, which is triggered by the magneto generator and provided with a revolution counter, effects via a stored ignition characteristics program a delay of the ignition pulse depending on the speed of revolution with respect to the magneto generator pulse.
  • the apparatus at first, there is generated an ignition pulse which is shifted further ahead of the desired ignition instant than will ever be required in practice.
  • the magneto generator pulse is sent through a delay circuit until it is released at its output as an actual ignition signal for the switching-through of the electronic switch, for example, a thyristor or a transistor.
  • the electronic switch for example, a thyristor or a transistor. Due to a stored ignition characteristics program, depending on the rotational speed, there is not only generated another optimum timed delay of the ignition pulse, but it is thereby also possible to program the sparking instant differently for falling rotational speeds than for rising rotational speeds.
  • a revolution counter is provided such that it generates a signal which distinguishes between rising and falling rotational speeds.
  • a memory is provided which stores the respective length of the interval between two preceeding pulses of the magneto generator and compares them with the last-measured interval in order to determine if the interval has become smaller (higher rotational speed) or if the interval has become greater and, thus, that the rotational speed has fallen.
  • the capacitor ignition apparatus allows also a very simple protection of the internal-combustion engine against running in reverse, in that a detector of the rotational direction ca be provided which prevents the release of ignition pulses during the wrong direction of rotation of the engine.
  • a detector of the rotational direction can be realized especially simply in that the number of the positive and/or negative half-waves induced in the magneto generator are determined.
  • the ignition pulse delay apparatus for the optimal programming of the particular instant of ignition can be constructed very simply in the form of a customer-specific circuit as a microchip comprising the detector of the rotational direction, the revolution counter, the ignition characteristics program and the pulse delay apparatus which, after all, already due to its small size, and due to its universal use, allows even the supplementation of already existing capacitor ignition apparatus.
  • the current supply of the ignition pulse generator has as an energy source a coil assigned to the magnet wheel of the magneto generator.
  • a separate coil wherein the magnet of the magnet wheel revolving around it induces a connected rectified and smooth supply voltage, results in less susceptibility to failure and feed-back with the circuit elements for the generation of the ignition pulse than if one respectively used one of the half-waves of the magneto generator pulse for the selection of the instant of ignition and the other half-wave for the generation of the supply voltage, as has already been suggested.
  • FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram illustrating partially in simplified form a block diagram of a capacitor ignition apparatus according to one embodiment of the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram of a modification of the circuit shown in FIG. 1 with a Graetz-rectifier in the charging circuit of the capacitor;
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 are schematic views of the magnet wheel and the charging coil with the respective induced voltages showing two different directions of rotation of the magnet wheel;
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the ignition characteristics program for the timing of the ignition angle with respect to the rotational speed.
  • the circuitry according to FIG. 1 shows in the upper part a conventional capacitor ignition apparatus in which the signal induced in the charging coil L 1 by a rotating magnet wheel charges the charging capacitor C 1 which is arranged in series with the primary winding L 2 of the ignition coil.
  • the particular desired instant of ignition of the thyristor Thy is switched through and discharges the capacitor C 1 via the primary winding L 2 of the ignition coil so that in the secondary winding L 3 thereof the ignition pulse can be induced.
  • the circuitry illustrated in the lower part of FIG. 1 serves for the generation of the ignition pulse, whereby the elements arranged outside of the framed delay portion 2 representing the essence of the present invention, represent the current supply whereby, originating from a further coil L 4 , there is generated a direct supply voltage induced by the magnet wheel.
  • the signal induced in L 4 is applied as an input pulse to the circuitry 2 which is, on the one hand, provided with a detector 4 for detecting the rotational direction.
  • This detector of the rotational direction determines the number of the positive and/or negative half-waves of the input pulse from which, as individually shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the direction of rotation of the magnet wheel can be determined.
  • the voltage is induced either by two negative and one positive half-waves, as shown in FIG. 3, or, on the other hand, during reverse direction of rotation of the magnet wheel, a voltage pulse according to FIG. 4 having two positive and one negative half-waves.
  • the detector of the rotational direction is simply configured such that it only releases an input pulse supplied at input 3 as an output pulse, when the internal-combustion engine is running in the forward direction. This pulse is now fed to the actual pulse delay circuit 7 which releases the ignition pulse at the output via the wire 1 to the thyristor.
  • the output pulse of the detector 4 for detecting the rotational direction is additionally supplied to a revolution counter 10 which not only determines by measuring the interval of two subsequent pulses the rotational speed itself but also determines whether the rotational speed is rising or falling.
  • the corresponding circuitry portion 11 generates an identification signal, so that at equal rotational speed, there can be preprogrammed different rotational speeds in the ignition characteristics program respectively for rising and falling rotational speeds, as is shown in the schematic diagram in FIG. 5.
  • the circuitry according to FIG. 2 differs from that of FIG. 1 essentially only in that instead of the simple rectification of the charging pulse of the coil L 1 for the charging of the charging capacitor C 1 there is used a bridge-connected rectifier.
  • the ignition pulse delay circuitry summarized in box 2 can preferably be constructed as a customer-specific circuit on a microchip.

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